I’m happy to finally announce that we have a definitive date for the Kickstarter to put Fireside on a better footing: Feb. 4, one week from today.

We’re going to reveal all the details on launch day, but we can say that this plan will keep Fireside going for a year. There are a lot of changes, including a few experiments that we are very excited about. We’ll be sending out a note to everyone as soon as we launch next Monday.

Also, if you’re on Twitter, at 8 p.m. this Wednesday I’ll be hosting a roundtable discussion on Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chat (@sffwrtcht). Topics will include Fireside, magazine publishing, editing, and Kickstarter and crowdfunding. You can follow along by running a search on the hashtag #sffwrtcht. I’ll be tweeting from @FiresideMag.